Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright

Director of the Center for the United States and Europe | Brookings Institution

Thomas Wright is director of the Center for the United States and Europe and a senior fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a non-resident senior fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney. His latest book, co-authored with Colin Kahl, is “Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order.” He is also the author of “All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power.”

Wright has a doctorate from Georgetown University, a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s and master’s from University College Dublin. He has also held a pre-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. He was previously executive director of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy.